“In my prior role, obviously, I did speak with a lot of customers, but this was an opportunity to approach my new role from the outside in,” he told ZDNet. “And the great news is, it reinforces a lot of what we are planning to do.” VMware reports solid Q2 results with subscription and SaaS sales up 23% That comes down to VMware’s goal of becoming the multi-cloud platform provider of choice....
Heading into the holiday season, time seems to fly by; you’ll be making New Year’s resolutions before you know it. But why wait to make dramatic changes in your life when it’s so easy and inexpensive to do so at any time? For instance, if you’ve been a little envious of all those digital nomad stories, there’s no reason you can’t become one yourself. Teach yourself new skills to find freelance work, buy an inexpensive laptop to work on the go, and you’re part of the way there....
Then, I realized that it’s worthwhile to distinguish between all three types of cards by listing their advantages and disadvantages. So let’s go through them one by one. [This article was first published on The Simple Dollar in 2020. It was updated in March 2022.] Advantages of a credit card The biggest advantage of a credit card is flexibility; you can make purchases without actually having the cash on hand at the moment....
Businesses have a strong interest in 5G, but the deployment model is challenging. Racking and stacking equipment from carrier-class companies is overkill for most businesses and takes months to get up and running. Using a service provider might be easier, but that has its challenges – such as data ownership, the cost of the service, and the carrier’s footprint. A better approach is private 5G, where the IT department can deploy and manage the networks itself, but few options have been available....
Now, with a new CEO, Google Fiber is apparently ready to hit the gas pedal again, announcing plans to expand to five new states in the next several years. That should be good news for broadband customers in those states, who mostly lack any competition to established networks run by cable networks with a de facto monopoly. But I’m skeptical of Google Fiber’s ability to deliver, based on my personal experience....
Breaking the bad news to us is TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who believes that the average selling price (ASP) of the iPhone 14 series will rise by “about 15%”. Now it’s important to note that this doesn’t mean a 15% price hike. ASP is taking the sales revenue of all the models and dividing that by the number of units sold. ASP can go up not only as a result of a price hike but also because buyers are choosing to buy the more expensive models....
Those feature updates were designed to be delivered through Windows Update and are, for all intents and purposes, full Windows version upgrades. Microsoft dialed back that schedule with the launch of Windows 11, committing to delivering these sometimes-disruptive feature updates only once each year, in the second half of the year. (That decision was also applied retroactively to Windows 10.) Reasonable people might have assumed that the schedule change meant Microsoft was thereby committing to not delivering any new features outside of those annual end-of-year feature updates....
After a long public test cycle in the Windows Insider Program, with Release Preview candidates available for more than three months, the 2022 Update contains no surprises. And with a gradual rollout planned over the next few months, it’s unlikely to cause drama for users or enterprise administrators. This feature update isn’t likely to turn Windows 11 skeptics into fans. It doesn’t include any major architectural changes and it preserves both the system requirements and the overall design of the user experience from the initial release....
Remote work does not apply to each and every profession, but where it does, its effects are felt. As many of us have experienced by now, remote work is a mixed bag. While many people feel more productive working from home and appreciate the flexibility this offers, there are also challenges such as finding focus amid distractions and “Zoom fatigue.” In an effort to go beyond anecdotal evidence, a number of surveys have been undertaken and unearthed in the last few months....
Also: This stuff is better than super glue First sold as an adhesive by Loctite in the 1960s, it’s an adhesive that can stick together a wide range of materials – from plastics to wood, glass and porcelain, metal and fabric, and even human skin (no, super glue did not start out as a way to close wounds, although it was used for this purpose during the Vietnam war in the 1970s)....
The set of Microsoft applications and platforms include Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure IoT, the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, Azure Active Directory, Defender for IoT, and Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise. Microsoft wants customers to build a connected supply chain with the aid of its low-code development platform PowerApps. To reduce risk, it supports demand management, supply chain intelligence, supply and demand insights, performance tracking, supplier management and real-time collaboration....
In an open letter that looked back at YouTube’s 2021 successes and discussed the company’s 2022 plans, Wojcicki revealed the company is laying the groundwork for a move into technologies like crypto, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). On the historical performance end, the CEO revealed that YouTube’s “Shorts” have been viewed more than five trillion times. The TikTok-like clips are less than 60 seconds and are designed to be quickly digestible....
According to the 2021 Annual Data Breach Report published by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Monday, the overall number of data compromises (1,862) is up more than 68% compared to 2020 (1,108). Out of the 1,862 compromises, 1,600 of those were cyberattacks. “The thing that probably concerns me the most is that not only was last year a record high for data compromises but that so many of them were cyberattacks....
ProtonMail’s Lydia Pang explained in a blog post that the company believes “reading emails should be as private as our end-to-end encryption makes sending them.” “Today, we’re happy to introduce enhanced tracking protection, a feature that will provide an additional layer of privacy to your inbox. Now you can read your emails without letting advertisers watch you, build a profile on you, or serve you ads based on your mail activity,” Pang said....
Non-GAAP earnings per share came to 22 cents on revenue of $562.7 million, up 37% year-over-year Analysts were expecting earnings of 12 cents per share on revenue of $530.83 million. “With Q3 revenue up 37% year-over-year and with increasing profitability, it’s clear that Pure continues to set the pace for the industry,” CEO Charles Giancarlo said in a statement. “We’re delighted to provide cutting edge data services to customers and with our continued leadership in two Gartner Magic Quadrants....
Both products expand Pure Storage’s vision that “modern data, storage and management should be, at the end of the day, services delivered as code,” Ajay Singh, Pure Storage’s chief product officer, said to ZDNet. With its new services, Pure Storage is advancing its vision by moving its portfolio upstack. “We think of our portfolio in the context of the customer’s journey to a modern data experience,” Singh explained. There are three aspects of that journey: modernizing infrastructure, modernizing operations and modernizing applications....
On Tuesday, Sophos released new research into the stealer-as-a-service, a bolt-on for threat actors to use as an additional tool for data theft and revenue. In a new campaign tracked by the team, the malware was spread not through spam emails – the usual initial attack vector linked to Raccoon Stealer – but, instead, droppers disguised as installers for cracked and pirated software. Samples obtained by Sophos revealed that the stealer is being bundled with malware including malicious browser extensions, cryptocurrency miners, the Djvu/Stop consumer ransomware strain, and click-fraud bots targeting YouTube sessions....
Microsoft analyzed anonymised data of real threat activity and, according to the company’s new Cyber Signals report, found that over 80% of ransomware attacks can be traced to common configuration errors in software and devices. These include applications being left in their default state, allowing user-wide access across the network, security tools being left untested or misconfigured, cloud applications set up in a way that can easily allow unauthorized intruders to gain access, and organisations not applying Microsoft’s attack surface reduction rules, which allows attackers to run malicious code using macros and scripts....
According to an analysis by cybersecurity researchers at SonicWall, the volume of attempted ransomware attacks targeting their customers rose by 105% in 2021, to a total of 623.3 million attempted incidents throughout the year. The figure also represents more than triple the number of attempted ransomware attacks recorded in 2019. SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) The biggest surge in ransomware attacks came between June and September 2021, a period that featured some of the most significant incidents of last year....
BianLian first appeared in August last year, with a series of attacks claiming victims in industries including media, manufacturing, and healthcare. The attacks have hit organizations around the world, with victims in countries such as the US, Australia, and the UK. Targeting Windows systems, and written in open-source programming language Go, BianLian uses an encryption technique that divides files into chunks, which helps it to encrypt systems at high speed, as well as helping it to avoid detection before the encryption has been completed....
